FORESTRY QUARTERLY 



Voiv. IX.] June, 1911. [No. 2. 



FORESTRY AND THE LUMBER BUSINESS. 



By J. E. Rhodes.* bota;^;. 



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Forestry in its larger sense means the preservation of the 

 forests for use. Using the forests involves lumbering; there- 

 fore forestry and lumbering must eventually become one con- 

 sideration. Forestry which does not contemplate the use of the 

 forest is not practical forestry and will not appeal to practical 

 men. It is, therefore, necessary that the forester should know 

 something of the conditions and necessities of the lumber 

 business. 



Up to the present time the United States Forest Service has 

 taken the majority of the graduates of the forestry schools, but 

 the time is not far distant when the Government will have a staff 

 sufficient to handle its own work, when trained foresters must 

 look to other fields for the exercise of their professional abilities. 

 Consequently, the attitude of the lumbermen and timber owners 

 toward your chosen profession must be of direct interest to you. 



While I do not speak with authority, I am more or less familiar 

 with the views which are held by many of the progressive men 

 of the lumber industry upon the subject of forestry. It is not 

 strange that the generation of lumbermen now passing had but 

 little patience with the theoretical forester. The evolution of 

 economic conditions is only just now beginning to make possible 

 the consideration of the application of scientific forestry prin- 

 ciples to lumbering operations with any hope of financial gain. 

 While it is true that forestry methods are adaptable to lumbering 

 in a small way in certain localities and in certain species of tim- 

 ber, it is impossible to apply them to the large lumbering opera- 



« — *Secretary, Weyerhauser Lumber Company. 



